The Russellville Democrat., 1887-02-23
The Arkansas Legislature.
FRIDAY, Feb. Is.


turn senate OIL NO. ~, was bakeu
up. 1t was bill to repeal the law
which allows the head of family to
waive the right of redemption when
the homestead is mortgaged for
money.
The bill has passed the house, but
a motion had been made to recon
slider the vote by which it had been
passed. The bill had been returned
to the senate and sent to the en-
rolling committee. 1t had been en-
rolled when the chair announced the
request of the house that the bill be
returned.
The chair stated after some dis
cussion that If the senate should re-
fuse to return the bill then, under
the joint rule, the enrolling commit
tee would have to hold the bill until
action on the question can be had.
Several senators urged the senate
to grant the request, others opposed
it, The bill was returned.
House bill No. 157, a bill to col
lect overdue taxes for corporations
doing business in this state. Read
a second and third times.
Senator Stayton showed that
there are large number of corpora
tons in this state that are due the
state considerable amount of back
taxes. He hoped the bill would
pass.
Senator johnson was in favor of
the bill but it allowed per cent for
collection. He thought 2 per cent
enough.
Senator Hanna thought this not
an Objectionable feature. 1t allows
the governor to pay not more than
5 per cent for collection. The gov
ernor, he believed, would make the
best contract for the state possible.
The bill passed unanimously.
Senate bill No. /, bill to prevent
the granting of free passes to officers
of the state. The bill passed the
senate with an amendment to the
original bill as offered by Senator
Smith. This senate amendment
provided that if state officers shall
not have free passes they shall not
be granted to any citizen of the
state. The house passed the bill
with an amendment striking out the
provision including all citizens.
The bill was returned to the senate
and the senate refused to concur in
the house amendment. 1t was re
turned TO the house and when acted
on the house refused to recede from
its amendment. Senator Smith
moved that the senate recede from
its position and concur in the house
amendment.
Senator Crockett made a long,
forclble speech urging the state to
concur. He showed that the con-
stitution requires that only the
state officers shall be included in
this bill. The people demand the
passage of this bill just as it came
from the house.
Senator Crandall explained that
be had opposed this measure, be-
lieving that the constitutional con-
vention had no right to include in
tbs constitution mandatory provis-
ion Legislative in it's nature. But il
the bill must be passed he believed
it should conform strictly with the
requirements of the constitution. If
he voted for the bill 1T would be in
order to settle the question and get
it out of the way.
Senator Cazort saw need OF Scrip.
ture to-day or preaching sermon
as he was accused of the day the
bill was under consideration, but he
would like to 60 around this morn
ing and shake hands with these
young converts.
Senator Stayton arose and said:
Mr.. President, am not fatalist,
nor have | more than my share OF
superstition, but there seems to be
strange fatality attending every at
tempt to comply with the plain man
date of the constitution upon this
subject. Every session since the
adoption OF the present constitution
the fate seemed to have logged the
very walks of the general assembly
and thwarted all attempts in that
direction. If ! had any hopes or
reason to believe that any good
would come of conference com
mittee / could vote for the motion,
but the house have three times SOL
omnly passed upon this question,
and to ask for a conference is but an
application of the fates for contin-
uance of the case for two years
longer. Public sentiment demands
that we pass this bill, and unless we
heed that now, mark the prediction,
that the places that know you now
will know you no more forever.
The motion to concur in house
amendments was adopted, yeas l6,
noes IL.
THE HOUSE.
The house refused to suspend the
rules for the introduction Of the res
olution.
Several petitions were introduced.
A resolution was offered provid
ing that no member should speak
for longer time than ten minutes,
except the mover of the main ques-
tion or chairman of the committee.
Adopted.
A resolution changing the hours
of meeting to o'clock was adopted.